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Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists identify immune-system mutation

...inical Research of Montreal); Fox Chase scientific technician Yi Zhang; Xiang Hua, manager of Fox Chase's transgenic mouse facility; Fox Chase research associate Emmanuelle Nicolas, Ph.D.; and Weihong Xu, Ph.D., and Bruce A. Roe, Ph.D., both of the University of Oklahoma's department of chemistry and biochemist...

Same mutation aided evolution in many fish species, Stanford study finds

... PhD, first author on the study, and Kim Hosemann; technician Sarita Balabhadra; undergraduate Guadalupe Villarreal Jr.; technical managers at the Stanford Human Genome Center Mark Dickson, Jane Grimwood and Jeremy Schmutz; and Richard Myers, PhD, professor of genetics. ...

Retrovirus struck ancestors of chimpanzees and gorillas millions of years ago, but did not affect ancestral humans

...dent in Eichler's lab at the UW, and Chris Yohn, a technician at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. ...

Researchers find first evidence of venom system in extinct mammal

...maybe it was a cavity," said Yong-Qin Sun, the lab technician who prepared the fossil, which is one of thousands that the U of A researchers have collected over the years from the banks of the Blindman River near Red Deer, Alberta. Sun immediately took the fossil to Scott, who thought it was the first proof of...

Scientists find a maturity gene in fly

... ?postdoctoral researcher Kirst King-Jones and lab technician Geanette Lam ?and with geneticist Jean-Philippe Charles of the University of Bourgogne in Dijon, France. From Egg to Larva, Pupa and Adult ?Except When the Gene is Disabled Fruit fly development starts when an egg is laid. Embryonic development pro...

MWG Biotech expands siMAX?siRNA portfolio with new scales, lengths and design tools

... ?postdoctoral researcher Kirst King-Jones and lab technician Geanette Lam ?and with geneticist Jean-Philippe Charles of the University of Bourgogne in Dijon, France. From Egg to Larva, Pupa and Adult ?Except When the Gene is Disabled Fruit fly development starts when an egg is laid. Embryonic development pro...

Kenya halts first field trials of GM maize

...d ordered the destruction after discovering that a technician had sprayed a restricted pesticide on maize modified to resist attack by insects called stem borers. Wilson Songa, Kenya's agriculture secretary and chair of the National Biosafety Committee, said this could compromise the validity of the trial's re...

Why Christmas trees are not extinct

...ts: Uwe Hacke, a research assistant professor; lab technician James Wheeler, who has since left for graduate school at Harvard University; and Elzard Sikkema, an undergraduate. The Plumbing System of Trees The numerous parallel "pipes" that carry water upward through the woody trunks of evergreen coniferous...

Canine cancer vaccine program shows early promise

...ia, and Michigan, the school has hired a full-time technician to produce the existing vaccine. The vaccine being used now has undergone a few modifications designed to increase its anti-cancer activity. "Not all dogs with melanoma respond to this treatment," cautions Ilene Kurzman, a researcher in the veterina...

New test to detect rare proteins in blood

...esearch investigator, and Mark Richter, a research technician in Greene's lab, report their findings in the advanced online publication of Nature Medicine. "The current ELISA tests can only detect proteins when they are in high abundance," says Zhang. "But the problem is that many of the functional proteins ?...

'Shuttling' protein possibly key to resilience of cancer cells

...ostdoctoral research associate Han Liu, laboratory technician Xuehong Deng and graduate student Y. John Shyu, all in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; Jian Jian Li, an associate professor in the Department of Health Sciences; Elizabeth J. Taparowsky, a professor in the Department...

New MRI technique quickly builds 3-D images of knees

...e maximizes each component of the image, so that a technician can view any aspect. High-resolution 3-D images are important not only from diagnostic and clinical standpoints, but also to help patients better understand their health conditions, says Block. "If you could actually look at a 3-D model from differ...

Brain-computer link lets paralyzed patients convert thoughts into actions

...ked with the first two patients as a Cyberkinetics technician and is now a doctoral student in Hatsopoulos's Chicago lab. The current BrainGate System is still in its infancy and is far from perfect. It is bulky and cumbersome. The quality of the signal can vary from patient to patient and from day to day. A ...

UGA scientists engineer root-knot nematode resistance

...ant research scientist Guozhong Huang and research technician Rex Allen, Hussey discovered how to make plants resistant to root-knot nematode infection. Eric Davis at North Carolina State University and Thomas Baum at Iowa State University also collaborated on the research. The discovery "has the potential to...

Silver bullet: UGA researchers use laser, nanotechnology to rapidly detect viruses

...ia of Raman shift values. With that information, a technician could readily reference a Raman shift for a particular virus to identify an unknown virus. To make their finding commercially viable, they're developing a business model, seeking venture capital and exploring ways to mass produce the silver nanoro...

Faster, more accurate tuberculosis test developed

...s acknowledge that MODS testing requires a trained technician and a biosecure environment in which to perform the test. However, they note that the 10-day training period is comparable to testing currently done to read malaria smears. MODS is a simple, rapid test that the authors expect will have a major impact...

Rapid, Low-Cost DNA Testing

... a much larger process that analyzes DNA. First, a technician extracts the DNA from the blood, tissue, or food. This typically take up to an hour. Second, there is generally not enough DNA to analyze, so it must be chemically amplified. This also takes apprximately one hour. The new process comes after these tw...